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The group in Summer 2026

There are currently 25 members of the group: 7 postdocs, 14 PhD students, 2 Master students and 2 Part III students.​

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Lab telephone number: +44 (0)1223 336364

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View information of former group members.

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Postdocs

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Dr François Richard

fr419[at]cam.ac.uk

PhD, Queen Mary University of London, 2021

Advisor: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis​

(he/him)

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Dr Hannah Askey 

ha601[at]cam.ac.uk

PhD, University of Bath, 2024

Advisor: Dr. Alexander Creswell

(they/them)

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Dr Joey Bell-Tyrer 

jjb222[at]cam.ac.uk

PhD, University of Auckland, 2022

Advisor: Prof. Dame Margaret Brimble

(he/him)

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Dr Xiaohua Luo

xl696[at]cam.ac.uk

PhD, NUS, 2025

Advisor: Prof. Ming Joo Koh

(she/her)

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Dr Sebastian Ye

yy646[at]cam.ac.uk

PhD, The Australian National University, 2023

Advisor: Prof. Martin Banwell

(he/him)

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Dr Marcus Vinicius Pinto Pereira Junior 

mvp31[at]cam.ac.uk

PhD, Yale University, 2026

Advisor: Prof. Scott Miller 

(he/him)

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Dr Christoph Buchelt

cb2455[at]cam.ac.uk

PhD, Technische Universität München, 2026

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bach

(he/him)

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Fifth year PhD Students

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Sarah Beaton

sb2499[at]cam.ac.uk

MSci, University of Bristol, 2021

Advisor: Prof. Carmen Galan

(she/her)

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Hanna Saik

hms63[at]cam.ac.uk

MSci, University of Cambridge, 2021

Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt

(she/her)

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Markus Böcker

mnab3[at]cam.ac.uk

MSc, ETH Zürich, 2021

Advisor: Prof. Dean Toste

(he/him)

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Ryan Kang

rjdk2[at]cam.ac.uk

MSci, University of Cambridge, 2022

Advisor: Dr. Pietro Sormanni

(he/him)

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Basia Kraus

bmk30[at]cam.ac.uk

MSci, University of Cambridge, 2022

Advisor: Prof. Michele Vendruscolo

(they/them)

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Russell Woodger

rw698[at]cam.ac.uk

MChem, University of Oxford, 2022

Advisor: Prof. Michael Willis

(he/him)

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Fourth year PhD Students

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Alina Lelke

al2170[at]cam.ac.uk

MSc, Universität Heidelberg, 2022

Advisor: Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann

(she/her)

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Kohl Ratkovich

kar47[at]cam.ac.uk

MS, University of Virginia, 2023

Advisor: Prof. Michael Hilinski

(he/him)

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Third year PhD Students

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Robert Langford

rl746[at]cam.ac.uk

MChem, University of Oxford, 2024

Advisor: Prof. Darren Dixon

(he/him)

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Ka Yan Ngai

kyn27[at]cam.ac.uk

MSci, University of Cambridge, 2024

Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt

(she/her)

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Second year PhD Students

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Dip Banerjee

db871[at]cam.ac.uk

MSci, University of Cambridge, 2025

Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt

(he/him)

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Max Batho

mb2752[at]cam.ac.uk

MChem, Durham, 2024

Year in Industry: Roche

(he/him)

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Ioana Oprea

io285[at]cam.ac.uk

MChem, St Andrews, 2025

Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Goss

(she/her)

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First year PhD Students

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Yuchen Sun

ys767[at]cam.ac.uk

MChem, University of Science and Technology of China, 2025

Advisor: Prof. Yun-He Xu

(he/him)

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Visiting PhD Students

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Keita Yamazaki

ky360[at]cam.ac.uk

MPharm, Chiba, 2024

Advisor: Prof. Tetsuhiro Nemoto

(he/him)

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Master Students

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Giorgia Romiti

gr532[at]cam.ac.uk

(she/her)

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Anton Scharpegge

afs51[at]cam.ac.uk

(he/him)

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Part 3 Students

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Benjamin Wang

yw698[at]cam.ac.uk

(he/him)

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Bill Ge

jg2111[at]cam.ac.uk

(he/him)

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Summer Students

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Lorenzo Massi

lam239[at]cam.ac.uk

(he/him)

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Research Assistant

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Tal Weissbrod 

tw652[at]cam.ac.uk

M.Sc., Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 2024

Advisor: Prof. Ilan Marek

(she/her)

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